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Compute replacements dynamically from captures.

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Section: JavaScript Regex APIs

replace() callback

javascript
javascript
text.replace(/(\w+),\s*(\w+)/g, (_, last, first) => `${first} ${last}`)
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Useful for reformatting structured text.

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